Open Access to Nuclear Information

GreyForum 3.1 – Grey Literature and Policy Development: The Pisa Declaration
7 April 2014, Pisa
Dobrica Savić
[email protected]
Nuclear Information Section
IAEA, Vienna
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International Atomic Energy Agency
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‘Open’ definition
Open access
Drivers of open access
IAEA and Nuclear Information Section
Open access at IAEA/NIS
INIS Collection
INIS Collection Search
Conclusions
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Organizing the world's
nuclear information and
making it universally
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1. ‘Open’ definition
Knowledge - includes content such as music, films, books, data (scientific, historical, geographic or
otherwise), government and other administrative information
Work - denotes the item or piece of knowledge which is being transferred
A work is open if its manner of distribution satisfies the following conditions:
1. Access: Work must be available at no cost in a convenient and modifiable form
2. Redistribution: Work can be sold or given away by any party on its own or as part of a package
3. Reuse: Modifications and derivatives can be distributed under the terms of the original work
4. Absence of technological restrictions: Use of an open format (specifications are publicly and
freely available without monetary or other restrictions)
5. Attribution: Attribution of the contributors and creators may be required
6. Integrity: If the work is distributed in modified form, the result should have a different name or
version number from the original
7. No discrimination against persons of groups: Works should be open to everyone
8. No discrimination against fields of endeavor: No restrictions for business use
9. Distribution of license: The rights attached to the works must apply to all of its redistributions
without the need for an additional license
10. License must not be specific to a package: The rights attached to the works must not depend
on the data being part of a particular package
11. License must not restrict the distribution of other works: No insistence that all other works
distributed on the same medium are open
Source: http://opendefinition.org
Open data, open government, open educational resources, free and open-source software, open science, etc.
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2. Open access
Open access (OA) – unrestricted on-line access to scholarly journal articles, theses, books,
chapters, grey literature
Open access can be:
• Gratis OA (free online access)
• Libre OA (free online access plus some additional usage rights often granted through
Creative Commons licenses)
Authors can provide open access through:
• Green OA: Self-archiving their journal articles in an OA repository
• Gold OA: Publishing in an open access journal
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• 9,709 registered journals
• 1,598,913 articles
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The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
• Over 2,500 listings
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3. Drivers of open access
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Knowledge-based economy
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A greater reliance on intellectual capabilities than on physical inputs or natural resources
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Globalization
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Products and services
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Research-development-new technology-production
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The knowledge worker
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Access to information
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Free use and reuse of information
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Distribution of knowledge products
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Developments in ICT
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PCs/laptops/mobile devices
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Networks
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ePublishing
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Growth of Internet
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Worldwide coverage
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Affordability
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Popularity
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Social media
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Outdated scientific publishing model
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Cost
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Time
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Availability
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4. IAEA and Nuclear Information Section (NIS)
 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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The world's leading Agency for cooperation in the nuclear field
Created in 1957 as part of the United Nations family
The IAEA works with its 162 Member States and multiple
partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and
peaceful uses of nuclear technologies
The IAEA Secretariat is based in Vienna, Austria, with 2300
multi-disciplinary professional and support staff from more than 100 countries
 Nuclear Information Section (NIS)
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Consists of the International Nuclear Information System (INIS), the IAEA Library,
and the System Development and Support Group (SDSG)
The objectives are to:
• foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on the peaceful use of nuclear science
and technology (collect, process, preserve and disseminate)
• Make the INIS Collection of publications freely available to all Internet users
• increase awareness in Member States of the importance of maintaining efficient and effective
systems for managing nuclear information resources
• assist with capacity building and training
• provide information services and support to Member States & the IAEA
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5. Open access at IAEA/NIS
 All IAEA publications are freely available on the
IAEA website in PDF
 NUCLEUS is a common access point to over 130
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information resources. This includes databases,
websites, applications, publications, safety
standards, training material and more. Most of
those data resources are open to the public.
 Database on insect disinfestation and
sterilization
 Mutant varieties database
 Charged-particle section database
 Experimental nuclear reaction data
 Fusion evaluated nuclear data
 Ion beam analysis nuclear data
 Nuclear decay data
 Power reactor information system
 ZVVIEW interactive plotting of nuclear data
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5. Open access at IAEA/NIS (cont.)
 Free, open and unrestricted access to the
INIS Collection (3.6 million records and
320,000 full-texts); 152 members
www.iaea.org/inis
 Free and open cooperation with 50 member
libraries of the International Nuclear Library
Network (INLN)
 IAEA Library offers free access to its
collections and free information services to
its users, including visitors to the Vienna
International Centre (VIC)
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6. INIS Collection
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120,000+ annual input
1 January 2014: - more than 3.6 million bibliographic records
- 482,951 full-text documents (NCL) (13.4%)
INIS Collection by Subject
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6. INIS Collection (cont.)
1 January 2014: 3,623,201 records
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7. INIS Collection Search
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Free and unrestricted access through Internet
New technology (Google Search Appliance)
Tremendous speed and scalability
Uncluttered, easy to use start-up interface
Advanced options to broaden or tighten search
Full-text indexing; More relevant results;
Faceted/filtered search
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Required 2-step registration
Cluttered interface made for librarians
Not easy to use (advanced search only)
Full-text indexing not implemented
Limited speed (outdated technology)
No exports of metadata or user profiling
Impact of opening access to
Google.com and Google Scholar
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2013: 50,000 searches and 3,000 downloads a month
2014: 250,000 searches and 41,000 downloads a
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8. Conclusions
On one hand
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Public sector wants to improve delivery of their products and services
Tremendous amount of information is available on the Web
Open access makes information and data discoverable
Value of information and data is increased through open access
Empowers people to make more informed and better decisions
On the other hand
More worry about look-and-feel than about user access
Information needs to be easier to find, access and navigate
We will build and they will come
It takes money to provide open access
Open access is not a project
Open access is a means not an end-in-itself
Open access should lead to quality information and data
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Being open means lowering barriers to ensure the
widest possible use!
Thank you!
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